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Group decision making with incomplete fuzzy linguistic preference relations

  1. S. Alonso1,*,
  2. F.J. Cabrerizo2,
  3. F. Chiclana3,
  4. F. Herrera2,
  5. E. Herrera-Viedma2

Article first published online: 29 DEC 2008

DOI: 10.1002/int.20332

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International Journal of Intelligent Systems

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volume 24, Issue 2, pages 201–222, February 2009

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Alonso, S., Cabrerizo, F.J., Chiclana, F., Herrera, F. and Herrera-Viedma, E. (2009), Group decision making with incomplete fuzzy linguistic preference relations. Int. J. Intell. Syst., 24: 201–222. doi: 10.1002/int.20332

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  1. 1

    Department of Software Engineering, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

  2. 2

    Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

  3. 3

    Centre for Computational Intelligence, School of Computing, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK

*Department of Software Engineering, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

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